For the past half decade the White House has combated childhood
obesity via the First Lady’s Play 60 campaign.
The idea is to get kids up off their butts, away from video games and to
head outdoors for vigorous exercise like tag, dodge ball, touch football, hop
scotch, etc like kids did back in the old days.
Bully for you, FLOTUS!
Now is the time for the for the First Family to step back up
to the plate to get America’s grownups to put down the remote, turn off Dr.
Phil, get out of the house and back on the job.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Work 40!
You don’t need me to rehash the facts – ongoing high
unemployment, record low workforce participation, record high long term
disability claims and extended unemployment benefits. Evidently North Carolina has put its foot
down on perpetual jobless benefits and it seems to be working. The
liberal media begs to differ.
If we put all partisan bickering aside, it is clear that
people do not need to econ majors to make decisions on the margin. If you can sit at home for $40K a year or
work for $50K, it’s a no-brainier that you are really working for only
$10K. Only a fool would do that.
Incentives matter. The
Cato Institute illustrates how it is financially
more advantageous to live on government assistance as opposed to going to work.
It’s high time we got behind a culture change like “Work 40!”
rather than incentivizing sloth.
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- Paul Simon
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